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starring: Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain, Sandra Dorne, Karel Stepanek directed by: Lindsay Shonteff, Sidney J. Furie EAN: 5013037117097 Format: Black & White, NTSC Number Of Discs: 1 Sales Rank: 70722 Theatrical Release Date: 1964-09 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - "That Dummy Talked To Me Last Night"The '64 black and white horror film 'Devil Doll' is a decidedly unnerving feature that has the feel of an extended episode of the old television series 'The Twilight Zone.' The camera work is expertly done adding to an surreal feel to the film already established by the hypnotic voice of magician, sorcerer Bryant Haliday (the Great Vorelli) and his scary little possessed dummy Hugo. The storyline is also well conceived, highly original for the time and will hold your attention from beginning to end. ... Read More Rating:  - Sandra Dorne is a DollI remember seeing this film as a kid on TV late at night. I was totally bored with the movie until the dressing room scene between Magda and Vorelli. What a well done romantic scene, loved Magda (Sandra Dorne) as a young kid and never tire of seeing her in her costume removing her shoes preparing for some "rest" with Vorelli. Rating:  - Good low budget chiller with a few unintentional laughsUnrelated to the 1936 Tod Browning movie of the same name; DEVIL DOLL has a similar story to the (later) famed segment of DEAD OF NIGHT and also to William Goldman's later novel MAGIC, which was filmed in 1978 with Anthony Hopkins. Scripted by George Barclay and Lance Z. Hargreaves, and based on a story by Frederick Escreet Smith; DEVIL DOLL is a compact but enjoyable little chiller. The Great Vorelli (Bryant Halliday) is a charismatic hypnotist/ ventriloquist who arrives in London to do his ... Read More Rating: - Superb DVD release of creepy Brit-horror classicReporter Mark English (William Sylvester; Gorgo, 2001: A Space Odyssey) is assigned to write a story on dark, sadistic hypnotist/ventriloquist The Great Vorelli (Bryant Haliday). English convinces his girlfriend Marianne (Yvonne Romain; Curse of the Werewolf, Circus of Horrors) to volunteer to be an on-stage hypnotic subject of Vorelli�s, whose popular act also involves his sarcastic talking, walking dummy Hugo. Determined to discover the secret of the dummy�s animation, Mark indirectly arranges to ... Read More Rating: - STRANGE LITTLE CHILLERI saw this on tv as a teenager and remembered it as just being a weird movie and I felt sorry for the little dummy but couldn't remember why. Having now purchased "DEVIL DOLL" and sat down and watched it again I now remember. Image has done another fine job of lovingly presenting a rare film to be re-appreciated by a target audience. It features beautiful, crisp black & white photography and clear soundtrack. Seeing it now must be what it was like seeing it on it's release in 1964. It also features ... Read More |
